uprise

From Middle English uprisen, from Old English ūprīsan (“to rise up”), equivalent to up- +‎ rise. Cognate with Icelandic upprisa (“resurrection”), Middle Low German oprīsinge (“uprising”). Compare also Icelandic uppreisn (“an uprising, revolt”).

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uprise (third-person singular simple present uprises, present participle uprising, simple past uprose, past participle uprisen)

1. (archaic) To rise; to get up.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter VI

     The great sky uprose from this silent sea without a cloud. The stars hung low in its expanse, burning in a violent mist of lower ether.

   • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     With the day, though not so early as the sun, uprose Miss Susan Nipper.

2. (archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination.
   • 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Vision of Sin”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Chicago, Ill.: The Dominion Company, published 1897, →OCLC, stanza V, page 317:

     The voice grew faint: there came a further change; / Once more uprose the mystic mountain range: / Below were men and horses pierc'd with worms, / And slowly quickening into lower forms; […]

3. To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
   • 1998, William B. Griffen, Apaches at War and Peace, page 92:

     They had decided to uprise rather than face punishment, and they wanted all the help they could get.

uprise (plural uprises)

1. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.
   • 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 283:

     I told her of my sufferings and my madness,
     And how, awakened from that dreamy mood
     By Liberty’s uprise, the strength of gladness
     Came to my spirit in my solitude; […]

• uprist

• “uprise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Epirus, rise up